Gender Inequality, Ethnicity and Race & Health and Sexuality
100
The ability to "think oneself away" when examining sociological questions, and posing these in a wider context.
What is the sociological imagination?
100
This component of culture consists of widely agreed upon principles or rules people are expected to observe.
What are social norms?
100
This is the means by which individuals prepare to interact and present their social roles to others.
What is impression management?
100
An approach to the study of deviance that suggests that people become 'deviant' because certain labels are attached to their behavior by political authorities and others.
What is labeling theory?
100
These children are referred to as the ______ in Afghanistan. Their parents transform them into sons so that they can take advantage of the opportunities afforded to boys.
What are the bacha posh?
200
This social theorist is a functionalist that coined the term 'anomie' to explain the common occurrence of suicide in certain communities.
Who is Émile Durkheim?
200
This heavily critiqued theory says that the differences we observe between groups of people are explained wholly by biology.
What is biological determinism?
200
This is the means by which individuals attempt to keep audiences separate in order to maintain separate roles for separate spheres.
What is audience segregation?
200
These are also known as crimes of the powerful.
What are white collar crimes and corporate crimes?
200
This is the barrier that places a cap on women's upward social mobility within the workplace.
What is the glass ceiling?
300
This theory sought to explain the religious origins of capitalism.
What is the Protestant Ethic?
300
This is the practice of judging a society according to its own standards.
What is cultural relativism?
300
This is a group that provides a standard for judging one's attitudes or behaviors?
What is a reference group?
300
This is a class system in which people are owned as property by others.
What is slavery?
300
This group has the lowest rate of high school graduation?
Who are Latinos?
400
This process involves seven steps beginning with "Defining the Problem/Creating a Research Question" and ending with "Report the Research Findings."
What is the research process?
400
This is a friendship group composed of individuals of similar age and social status.
What is a peer group?
400
This is the form of organizational structure that Max Weber saw as taking over modern society. It is marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and the existence of written rules of procedure and staffed by full-time, salaried officials.
What is bureaucracy?
400
This refers to the upward or downward movement of individuals and groups among different class positions as a result of changes in occupation, wealth, or income.
What is social mobility?
400
This study revealed a tremendous discrepancy between prevailing public expectations of sexual behavior and actual sexual conduct.
What is Kinsey's Study of Sexual Behavior?
500
This form of research seeks to bring together a multitude of research methods to supplement and compliment each other.
What is triangulation?
500
This theory uses the functionalist approach to think about aging. It says that busy, engaged people are more likely to lead fulfilling and productive lives for society.
What is activity theory?
500
This is a form of capital that encompasses social knowledge and connections that enable people to accomplish their goals and extend their influence.
What is social capital?
500
This term describes the increase in the proportion of the poor who are female.
What is the feminization of poverty?
500
This functionalist theory of illness has been critiqued because it cannot be applied across all contexts.